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Have you checked that $_GET['category'] is actually returning something?

If you replace Photoshop with Fireworks, you'd be more on the right track. Fireworks is for Web/Screen Design. Photoshop is for image manipulation. Not to say Photoshop isn't excellent but the correct tool made by Adobe for Web Design is actually Fireworks.

Well in my experience the lower down IT guys in the last company I worked for just kind of took an interest. Become familiar with building and fixing PC's and Microshaft software, And Citrix, Sharepoint, that kind of thing. Servers. These guys came in with a rough understanding and were kind of trained on the job or handed a manual and some time to work it out, so if you're lucky you'll get a company taking on "juniors" where you could do this. If you take on this stuff as a semi-hobby, you'll eventually know just about enough to get you in as a junior, same as you can do in Web Design. Then hopefully you learn on the job under your own steam and also have seniors that can teach you a few things. Oh and get used to taking 3 hours for the person you're trying to help suddenly discovering they've typed their password in wrong. Or not switched a plug socket on. And get used to kicking things. That sometimes helps.

I'd have the spacing inbetween the close and far apart spacings you've done. Also, on last design, letters too close to edge of circle. Make circle slightly bigger. Anyone else noticed that on the last one, you get a slight optical illusion of the text fish-eyeing slightly?

If you make the menu 100% wide, then make the <li>items inline-block, and margin: auto; that's usually where I start for centered menus. You might have to play around with things like width: auto; for them as well maybe a text-align:center on the 100% width <ul>, that type of thing.

I prefer a good lightweight IDE like Netbeans, for the reasons given above.

One point is always use the user id, not the name. This allows multiple unique users with the same name. So you could have 5 John Smith's, but if you always refer to the id of the user rather than the name in your queries, it keeps them seperate. You probably knew that already.

Along the lines of a seperate table with columns "comments" and "UserId" or whatever you want to call them which can store as many comments as you like, with the user's id that posted them alongside them. The UsersId column would then match up with the ID column in your users table. And whatever other columns you want in the comments table, like date posted, etc. Then you could write some sql queries which linked the two tables together by use of the "ID" column in both tables.

Under what circumstances might they "come across your site" on google? First, they would have to type in relevant keywords which would no doubt be pretty specific. Second, your site would have to appear on page 1 or possibly 2 of google, which is pretty unlikely with all the competition, not to mention the correct keywords would have to be typed.There seems to be a certain breed of person who thinks that the first page of any search result on google is infinitely long, for some reason. Why I bother posting on this complete spam of a thread I'm now beginning to wonder...

Blimmin double post.

Hahahaaaa I ain't been here in a while, but glad to see you're just as on form as I remember there Rallport! I love it when this happens. Blimmin hilarious.

Ah the old 5 1/4" floppies. Such as I used to play Elite from on the BBC Micro. Capacity a few hundred K or thereabouts, although it reached just over a Mb in the end if I remember right.Ah those days.... please press play on tape...

lol

Those url's have come out shortened and formatted. If they're not clear, look about halfway down "parameters" box on this page : http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/bloginfo

The code is giving you the absolute url of the image. php bloginfo('template_url') + /images/banner.jpg effectively, where "bloginfo('template_url')" refers to if I remember right the base folder of your template. So if that's say "http://example/home/...ifeguard-theme" then this plus the image banner bit would equal "http://example/home/...lifeguard-theme + /images/banner.jpg" which equals http://example/home/...ages/banner.jpg - That is the url that will be parsed for your image. So looks like an images folder within your "lifeguard" theme folder within your "themes" folder. Obviously lifeguard = the theme you are working with. That was what you were asking, no?

"Women advice" - what do you mean by this?

Edit - answer already given.

Ya don't say. Oh well, better ditch my latest script font, auto play, animated gif, table layout design then. Pity. Can I keep my pink and green colour scheme though?

That depends to be fair of the context of the sentence the OP has written which says "website templates and graphic". If he means "website templates and website graphics" then your correct choice would be Adobe Fireworks. 2nd "Correct" choice would be Adobe Photoshop. If however he means "website templates and printable graphics" then your correct choice would be FW or PS for the site templates and probably Illustrator for the printable graphics, although you can muddle through with Photoshop to a certain degree. You don't need the "Adobe Suite" necessarily for what he requires. You may only need Fireworks, for example.

Contrary to what everyone else says, I prefer the PS3 controller. Depends on our hands I guess. In my opinion the PS3 official controller is the best controller I've ever used on a games console. Very responsive and accurate, very ergonimic and very robust. It's even holding up to heavy "Fight Night round 4" usage - which really mullers the sticks, but after probably 1000's of hours on that game, the sticks feel exactly like they did when I first bought it. However, I do understand that the difference between the two consoles is so slight that you might as well toss a coin for it. Or look to see which one has more of the games you want. You'll be happy with either. The controller funnily enough seems to be what sways it one way or another for a lot of people.

Yeah roughly as an overview you want on onclick event for the image, an ID for the stylesheet for the js to reference, then you change the stylesheet by using js to change the href property. So your javascript achieves : "Locate the item with this ID and change the href of it to the new one supplied". If that helps.

Don't even joke about that. It conjures up images of the client who's son's dog's dad's owner's nephew designed the logo in MSpaint and the site in MSword.

Won't make a difference. After all, the client's wife's dog's son's owner's next door neighbour's brother knows some html 4 and can do you a websie for £200 with "Java" and insists that it's a good idea.

Hmmm... a bit hack-ish but how about use a span or <p> or whatever with absolute positiong (50%?) within the <li> item? Something like that. On second thoughts - hang on. Would we still have the padding issue? Probably. In which case I don't see a way round it unless the <li> item has a fixed width. What I was trying to get at was could this be solved by having a container within a container or similar? This is a right pain in the proverbial. Something so simple should be so tricky. And our heart sinks as the client innocently and cheerfully asks us to make bold on rollover.

I'd recommend both, although it seems daunting. Photoshop because it is still the industry standard, and Fireworks because it is the correct tool for the job (and cheap). The situation's a bit screwed up like that, but that's the way it is currently. Or, you could always try GIMP if you want a good free solution.